Sentences with phrase «as natural water»

The Posidonea Prairie that surrounds the island acts as a natural water treatment plant that cleans the water and makes Formentera different from the rest of the Mediterranean.

As a natural water softener, washing soda also helps remove hard water stains on sinks, appliances, faucets or anywhere else they are.

This includes big infrastructure projects to control floods, like levees and breakwaters; retrofitting individual homes or moving homeowners away from floodplains; and restoring wetlands to serve as natural water sinks.

New York City Department of Environmental Protection ecologist John McLaughlin leads a project exploring urban oyster beds as natural water filters.

Zuckerman, who is on leave from his position as director of the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp. to campaign full time, pulls from his experience as director of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy when he suggests creating so - called «sponge parks» that would work as natural water filters.

As forests and farmlands — which act as natural water filtration systems — are paved over, the problem grows.

Rainforests act as natural water filters, keeping pollution and debris from flowing into water supplies; they also slow down rainwater, sending it into underground reserves.

Not exact matches

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

It's also known as one of the most eco-friendly, thanks to the company's inventive use of natural materials like merino wool, tree fibers, and recycled water bottles.

Here, fire and water curiously coexist as natural gas and hot spring water escape the rocky walls — although legend would have you believe that a fiery dragon and a water tiger once fought here a long time ago before they called it a truce and decided to join together as fire and water.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

As cold water hits the body, it's ability to get blood circulating leads the arteries to more efficiently pump blood, therefore boosting our overall heart health, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a natural health expert.

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

We believe that it threatens our sovereignty and puts control of our natural resources such as the Tar Sands and water at risk.

The Utilities sector includes companies that engage in the production and delivery of electric power, natural gas, water, and other utility services, such as steam and cooled air.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

2017.03.20 Canadians Remain Conflicted About Our Most Precious Natural Resource: Fresh Water Today, as Canada Water Week kicks off across the country, RBC released its 10th annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh wWater Today, as Canada Water Week kicks off across the country, RBC released its 10th annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh wWater Week kicks off across the country, RBC released its 10th annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh wWater Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh waterwater.

There are several types of brushes available, such as badger hair, boar bristle, and synthetics, but badger hair is by far the most ideal material for a shaving brush because of its natural water absorbing capability.

The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

Thus, as Christians in Latin America we choose life over death by combating the deterioration of the natural environment and the pollution of soil, air, water, and other elements.

The fact that the sign is often constituted by a natural substance, such as water or oil, points to the goodness of God's creation.

since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

Even more serious is the competition for an equal share of such basic natural resources as food and water.

And, in our relationship to the natural world, short - term exploitation of the earth's bounty becomes our birthright, whether or not its result for our children might be shortages of life - sustaining resources such as topsoil and potable water.

Pagans who worshipped Odin, believed in Isis and Mithra, believing that natural guilt and corruption of their new - born children could be washed away by sprinkling them with water, or by plunging them, as soon as born, into lakes or rivers.

Natural elements such as water, trees, and shrubs often play a part, along with victims» names inscribed in a way that invites touching, as with the bronze panels surrounding the 9/11 footprint - cavities.

The natural and human objects of the earth are viewed with a dispassionate regard, «as through water,» the distance enforcing the integrity of the examination.

«The flood is described in natural terms as the effects of sins (of violence in particular) with no divine act of intervention; only with the subsiding of the waters is God's activity stated explicitly» (Fretheim, God and World, 80).

The first account represents the event as crucially conditioned by «natural» phenomena - an abnormally low tide produced by uncommonly strong winds; the returning of the water; the rendering ineffective of the Egyptian chariots by the now miry shallows; and the necessary abandonment of the chase.

The fact is, of course, that whether by wind and tide, or by giant walls of water which formed between a dry pathway through the midst of the sea, what is affirmed is the Lord's Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see Matt.

7 - Conserve and improve the Earth's natural environment — land, soil, water, air and space — as humankind's common heritage.

I think I was converted to more natural cleaning products when I used half a tub of bicarb down the sink plughole followed 10 minutes later by half a bottle of vinegar and then a while later a kettle full of boiling water, and found it un-blocked the sink just as well as any previous drain unblocker I had tried AND without all the noxious fumes and damage to our septic tank!!

Pineapple, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate added as a preservative, oleoresin turmeric (color) and sulfur dioxide.

Pineapple, sorn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate added as a preservative, oleoresin turmeric (color), and sulfur dioxide.

However, coconut water serves as an excellent replacement medium with 294 mg of potassium and 5 mg of natural sugar per glass, unlike your favorite sports drink that only contains half of the potassium content and five times the amount of processed sugar.

An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.

Ingredients: Sugar, water, spearmint extract mint (water, alcohol, natural flavors), lactic acid (<.1 % as preservative), spearmint

We stock a GIANT selection of juices, soy - drinks, natural sodas and waters, as well as health & energy drinks

Other conundrums will abound as well, Salton Sea water vs Great salt lake water... iodised vs natural... sigh... I know the author will go on and on.

In response to natural disasters, Windward and Leeward has put plans into place such as importing water from other locations to deal with water supply challenges related to damaged water catchments.

Today, Gerwe says, the division distributes brands such as Red Bull, Nestlé Waters North America, Nestea and Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water.

Finally, retailers that have a bulk water service will have the ability to serve as an emergency provider of purified water in the event of natural disasters.

Ingredients: Fresh - pressed hard pear cider, filtered water, juice concentrates as finishing sweeteners (pear, apple, elderberry, blackberry), natural flavors, malic acids, raspberry juice concentrate (finishing sweetener), contains sulfites

As per that Standard (section 6.2.3) natural products such as minerals, salt or water shall not be collected or harvested or processed and labelled as «organic» or «biodynamic»As per that Standard (section 6.2.3) natural products such as minerals, salt or water shall not be collected or harvested or processed and labelled as «organic» or «biodynamic»as minerals, salt or water shall not be collected or harvested or processed and labelled as «organic» or «biodynamic»as «organic» or «biodynamic».

On top of all that, pulse crops are sustainable, with low water and carbon footprints, and they act as natural fertilizers, enriching whatever soil they grow in.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

As this is a natural, organic product without any articifical stabilisers or additives the coconut fat and water content can seperate.

However, if you were to buy Taco Bell's chipotle sauce from the store, you would find the following ingredients: Soybean Oil, Water, Whey (from Milk), Vinegar, Buttermilk, Salt, Egg Yolks, Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Garlic, Chipotle Chile Pepper Puree, Spice, Garlic Juice, Onions, Citric Acid, Chipotle Chili Pepper, Xanthan Gum, Phosphoric Acid, Red Bell Pepper, Natural Flavor, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate, Extractives of Paprika, Natural Smoke Flavor, With Sorbic Acid and Calcium Disodium Edta As Preservatives.